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Mon, 24 Sep 2001 08:11:23 -0230
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[idm] What is an album?
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My partner and I have this continual disagreement: -- I say an "album" is a collection of tracks by an artist that constitute a release, in any format. (E.g. "I am totally enamoured with Funckarma's new album 'Solid State'. I recently received the CD from Forced Exposure and have been listening to it a lot since. Such beautiful colours! I no longer consider Funckarma brown." -- He says an "album" is the vinyl format of a release. (E.g. "Most of L'usine's EPs are albums, which we can't get because we don't have a turntable. But a lot of the tracks appear on A Pseudo Steady State anyway, so we might not be missing much.") Which one of us has the terminology correct? -Sharon in Canada